Opelika-Auburn News editor Justin Lee implied that there are confirmed findings, potentially, if not likely of the groundbreaking variety, regarding AU’s 2022 inquiry into disgraced former Auburn football head coach Bryan Harsin on December 5.
“Auburn University, for whatever reason, let’s (Harsin) troll and prod while taking the ‘high road’ and never releasing FOIA requests on its interview findings,” Lee prefaced before saying, “It’s baffling and frankly a bad look for Chris Roberts, but hey we all make mistakes our rookie year.”
Lee was answering a reader pointing out that Harsin seems to spend his days collecting unearned checks not to be the Tigers’ head football coach and constantly inserting himself into Auburn conversations with not-so-subtle indirect references.
The man in the Arena……👏 https://t.co/6bkSmvucLg
— Bryan Harsin (@CoachHarsin) October 15, 2023
‘Real reason’ for 2022 inquiry into Bryan Harsin’s Auburn football program
Back on October 9, 2022, Lee revealed the supposed real reason Harsin was looked into by Auburn University.
“For whatever reason, the university omitted the real reason for the inquiry into the program — the investigation into the possible mistreatment of Black football players — and allowed him to make a statement suggesting it was about the affair rumors,” Lee said.
If the lid is about to burst on Harsin’s tenure, and why it was so short and didn’t work out on the field or the recruiting trail, you can forget a return to the sport for the Boise native. Ideally, AU could perhaps find a loophole out of their financial commitment to Harsin in that scenario. You’d have to hope Auburn University’s Athletic Department’s counsel could retroactively find cause to fire him without any further payouts. Of course, it’d be another scandal if AU hid these findings as well.
The domino effect of what Lee implied could be unfathomably wide-reaching and leave a scar on almost everyone involved.
This story is far from over, folks. Stay tuned.
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